Brexiteers destroyed Britain’s future, says former Bank of England governor

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1. “Yeah, let’s alienate our nearest neighbors (who also are our biggest trading partners) and throw out all the regulations that enabled further business with them.” How could so many Britons be so illogical and poorly educated as to vote for something like that? Hard to believe that you people used to control 25 percent of the planet.

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3. The issue is that people were disillusioned well before Brexit happened. Hence why they voted leave.

   My area at the time, was seeing a MASSIVE growth in the wealth gap. Some people were doing well for themselves, while others despite their best efforts were unable to progress at all (mainly the nonacademic types). Meanwhile all the land and space around them was being consumed by more housing to house an ever increasing population. So they were finding themselves in a constantly worse environment and situation.

   Also a plethora of other issues.

   The main point I am trying to make is that the people who voted leave, were already being failed by the government, so voting leave was their attempt to change something for the better.

   Unfortunately, it did not make their situations better at all.

   So quite frankly, it was the government that brought this upon themselves, and the people, and constantly trying to blame everything on “the poors” is a good example of why people were disillusioned in the first place.

4. Just for 20 or 30 years. So a Thatcher level event.

5. People was lost, confused and disillusioned before the Brexit vote and then boris and his cronies came along and lied to everyone about how leaving the EU would save up money.
   They lied to us and got away with it

6. Damn he must have been desperate to say this at the time but was unable to because of his position. Anyone who wasn’t getting drunk on jingoism and nationalism could see what was happening at the time.

7. I can understand why people voted for Brexit. I don’t agree with their reasons, I think they’re mostly stupid for thinking Brexit would fix anything, but I ‘understand’ it.

   What I don’t understand is the lack of remorse and regret. It clearly hasn’t worked. It clearly has made us poorer, weaker, less united and worse off as a people and a country. I don’t understand the lack of anger at the politicians and pundits who pushed the lies and manipulated people in to supporting Brexit.

   Take my mum as an example. She voted for it, but she will still say through gritted teeth it was the right thing to do and it’ll pay off *eventually*. God fucking dammit just open your eyes and see you were taken for a ride. There’s no shame in admitting it. There’s shame in stupidly denying it.

8. He’s got some nerve given the damage he did to Britain’s future during his disastrous tenure at the Bank.

9. Yeah it wasn’t Mark Carney doing nothing to sensibly raise the bank rates over time. Now its the “Brexiteers” fault not his.

10. It annoys me that David Cameron has got off scott-free. This is his fault. The reckless hubris of “*I’ll give them a referendum, that’ll get people back to the Tories, don’t worry they’ll never actually vote to Leave*”.

11. If you look at the areas who voted Leave, it’s obvious that a lot of people didn’t feel that “Britain’s future” included them, because it didn’t – trying to convince people who lived in areas decimated by neoliberalism that it was in their interests to vote to keep the status quo was always going to be a hard sell; that the Remain campaign was fronted by some of the most insufferably smug and condescending people in the country made the outcome inevitable

12. Let’s face it, Russian officials have come out and openly said Brexit was a great boon for them in crippling Britain and the EU.

    Anyone who is still advocating for Brexit is just fifth column filth, plain and simple.

13. He’s right, but he hasn’t exactly done the working people of Britain many favours either.

14. Surely it should still be the government who are responsible for Brexit though, they failed to campaign effectively for why people should want to stay in the EU and then they went ahead with the referendum even though results are advisory and could’ve just commissioned a report or set up a commit to discuss ‘brexit’ but they choose to take advantage and enrichen themselves at the cost of everyone else.

15. Maybe if the banks hadn’t fucked everybody in 2007…?

16. Honestly it really scares and upsets me how fucked that decision seems to have been.

17. Propaganda can do insane things to people. Especially when most voters (oaps) get all their news from media that goes through no. 10.

18. Brexit happened because EU membership doesn’t benefit everyone equally. If you have a university degree and work in a cushy white collar tech job where you’re moving around different countries, then you support being in the EU, because you benefit from it. But not everyone has the same life or job that you do. If you live on a council estate and work a minimum-wage blue-collar job, your life is stationary. You’re too poor to travel and your job doesn’t allow it because it’s in the same building every day. So what’s the point of being allowed to live in other countries when you’re never going to.

19. “Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers—visible or invisible—giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the world’s wealthiest and most prosperous people. Bigger than Japan. Bigger than the United States. On your doorstep. And with the Channel Tunnel to give you direct access to it. It’s not a dream. It’s not a vision. It’s not some bureaucrat’s plan. It’s for real. And it’s only five years away.” M. Thatcher, 1988

20. The “bright side” of Brexit is that now there is no super entity left to blame but the government for the wrongs in this country.

    The issue has always been, and is still the case in many EU countries, that national governments are shite at governing. Why? Because people are unwilling to solve issues stemming from “democracy”.

21. Yep the one thing they’ve achieved from brexit hardly a benefit

22. I’m really sick to death of the old “it’s the Brexiteers” fault argument. There were so many things broken and just weighted against the actual working people, many were just fed up and looking for a chance to change things. They didn’t have the background to know what would happen in the vote, that was the job of the respective sides to campaign and education. But instead the No campaign just ran a fear drive rather than looking at the merits. It’s all well and good to say people should look for the information but, many are busy trying make ends meet, or have no real hope of understanding what any of the information actually means or its long standing impact. The fact is the government has failed for years to stand up for the people of the country and failed to represent. Then they all squabbled over the Brexit deal dragging it out so we had do settle for the mess we have now. But they want articles like this and for people who voted remain to attack those that voted to leave because it keeps the focus off the mess they lead us to and continue create. Best of all the way the system is designed we won’t really get anything that amounts to representation.

23. Just a Politically motivated former Bank of England governor that can be ignored!

    Brexit could have offered the UK massive opportunities for growth and development, but we currently have the worst of both worlds half and half out, but I suspect it was purposely implemented that way… always remember the establishment was a dead set against it which is why the former Bank of England governor is speaking out against it

24. Watch in a few years time, all these right wing nut Brexiteers, going to have that long term term memory loss, akin to Iraq war support.

    Nah I didn’t vote brexit guv, was stupid innit

    (Narrator: He’s lying)

25. Where do I apply for this thing of Bank Governor? Because I am an idiot, but I knew that too.